“The devastating punch we took on September 11 still reverberates throughout American society.”
"America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention."
- Tom Harkin
Health
"We will win this struggle—not for glory, nor wealth, nor power, but for justice, for freedom, and for peace… so help us God."
- Tom Harkin
Determination
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity